A Future History of Water

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dc.contributor.authorBallestero, Andreaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-16T17:20:06Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-07-16T17:20:06Zen_US
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.descriptionBased on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBallestero, Andrea. "A Future History of Water." (2019) Duke University Press: https://doi.org/10.25611/egc8-n043.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/egc8-n043en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781478004516en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/106143en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordwateren_US
dc.subject.keywordhuman rightsen_US
dc.subject.keywordcommodificationen_US
dc.subject.keywordprivatizationen_US
dc.subject.keywordCosta Ricaen_US
dc.subject.keywordBrazilen_US
dc.subject.keywordscience and technology studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordcultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordlegal anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordanthropology of knowledgeen_US
dc.subject.keywordeconomic anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordfinanceen_US
dc.titleA Future History of Wateren_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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